| 1831 - عدد الصفحات: 602
...wet; Tis not here, still yonder, yonder ; Never urchin found it yet. What is Life ? a thawing icehoard On a sea with sunny shore ; — Gay we sail ; it melts beneath us ; vVe are sunk, and seen no more. What is Man ? a foolish baby, Fighting fierce for hollow nuts ; Demanding... | |
| John Shipp - 1831 - عدد الصفحات: 546
...remarks require no commentary ; the facts stare us in the face every day of our lives. THE LITTLE FIFER. What is Life ? — a thawing iceboard, On a sea with...melts beneath us ; We are sunk, and seen no more. DURING that disastrous attack upon the strong fortress of Bhurtpore, under Lord Lake, in the year 1805,... | |
| 1839 - عدد الصفحات: 226
...urehin fouud it yet. What is Life '.' a thawing iceberg On a sea with sunny shore; Gay we sail—it melts beneath us— We are sunk, and seen no more. What is man 1 a foolish baby, Fighting fieree for hollow nuts; Demanding all, deserving nothing— One qmall grave... | |
| Blanchard Jerrold - 1853 - عدد الصفحات: 122
...philosopher, has framed his epigramatic reply to our question. Mr. Carlyle starts forward with one — " What is Life ? A thawing ice-board On a sea with sunny shore — Gay we sail — it melts before us ; — We are sunk, and seen no more." Poets have written often of Life only to remind us... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1860 - عدد الصفحات: 504
...What is Hope ' A smiling rainbow Children follow through the wet; 'Tis not here, still yonder, yonder: Never urchin found it yet. What is Life ? A thawing...beneath us; We are sunk, and seen no more. What is Man 1 A foolish baby, Vainly strives, and fights, and frets; Demanding all, deserving nothing; — One... | |
| 1860 - عدد الصفحات: 452
...is hope ? A smiling rainbow Children follow through the wet; 'T is not here, still yonder, yonder: Never urchin found it yet. " What is life ? A thawing...we sail; it melts beneath us; We are sunk and seen DO more. " What is man ? A foolish baby, Vainly strives, and fights and frets, Demanding all, deserving... | |
| Sunbeams - 1861 - عدد الصفحات: 368
...? — A smiling rainbow Children follow through the wet ; 'Tis not here — still yonder, yonder ; Never urchin found it yet. What is Life !— A thawing...beneath us ; We are sunk, and seen no more. What is Man 2— A foolish baby, Fighting fierce for hollow nuts ; Demanding all, deserving nothing — Cunning... | |
| 1876 - عدد الصفحات: 618
...wet; 'Tis not here, still yonder, yonder; Never urehin found it yet. What is life? A thawing ieeboard On a sea with sunny shore; — Gay we sail; it melts beneath us; We are sank, and seen no more. What is man? A foolish baby, Vainly strives, and fights, and frets; Demanding... | |
| James Anthony Froude - 1882 - عدد الصفحات: 590
...of Britain, the skilful statesman on whom all eyes in England and Europe were expectingly fixed. ' What is life ? a thawing ice-board On a sea with sunny...it melts beneath us; We are sunk and seen no more.' But I must leave these moralities, in which, perhaps, I am too apt to indulge. Before this time Mary... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1884 - عدد الصفحات: 408
...is Hope ? A smiling rainbow Children follow through the wet ; Tis not here, still yonder, yonder : Never urchin found it yet. What is life ? A thawing...sunny shore ; — Gay we sail ; it melts beneath us ; 1 1827. What is Man 1 A foolish baby, Vainly strives, and fights, and frets ; Demanding all, deserving... | |
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